The Kansas Collection - Additional Collections and Holdings

Commercial Photographers

Joseph J. Pennell Collection

 

The collection consists of 30,000 glass plate negatives made by Junction City, Kansas photographer between 1891 and 1923. Pennell’s photographs portray a small town at the turn of the century and its transition into the modern era. Approx. 6,000 photographs have been printed and are also available on microfilm. Finding aid and subject

access available.

Salmon Brothers Collection

The work of brothers John Sanders Salmon and Nathan Daniel Salmon of Mt. Hope, Kansas, 1897-1920s. The collection of glass plate negatives and prints details all aspects of life in Mt. Hope including business, farming, recreation and social organizations. Finding aid and subject access available.

Duke D’Ambra Collection

The work of freelance photo journalist Alessio P. (Duke) D’Ambra of Lawrence, Kansas. The collection of approx. 3,000 photographs documents 50 years of life in Lawrence from the 1920s to the 1970s. Photographs by D’Ambra of the University of Kansas are located in University Archives. Finding aid and subject access available.

W.H. Martin Collection

Tall tale postcards by Ottawa, Kansas photographer created between 1908 and 1910.

Amateur Photographers

Jules A. Bourquin Collection

The work of amateur photographer Jules A. Bourquin of Horton, Kansas,1898-1959. The Collection consists of 34 linear feet of glass negatives, prints, postcards and albums. Negatives are sorted by size and images arranged chronologically. Finding aid available.

Culver Collection

The work of amateur photographer W.E. Culver of Topeka, Kansas. The collection of approximately 4,000 glass plate negatives and prints documents turn of the century Topeka and vicinity and Culver family vacations to New York, Chicago and Colorado. Culver’s artistic sensibility is evident in the many posed photographs of his three children. Finding aid available.

Native Americans

Daniel B. Dyer Collection

Employed as Indian agent at the Quapaw Indian Agency from 1881 to 1884 and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency at Darlington, Oklahoma in 1884, Dyer collected photographs of Quapaw and Osage Indians and the Quapaw and Modoc Methodist Mission. The collection also contains picture post cards of scenes in Oklahoma and Indian portraits from 1889 to 1908. Finding aid available.

Floyd Schultz Collection

Photographs collected by amateur anthropologist include Potawatomie Indians on their Jackson County, Kansas reservation, Apache Indians photographed by Dr. A.B. Regan from 1899 to 1902, and various other tribes from the 1860s to 1943. Finding aid and subject access available.

Railroads

George Allen Collection

Includes Gardner’s Across the Continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division series, 1867. Stereographs document the path the Union Pacific Railway took through Kansas. Finding aid available.

Howard Killam Collection

The collection of this former car man in the Santa Fe Railway’s Topeka Shops consists of 26 linear feet of black and white negatives and color slides of railroad stations, buildings and steam and diesel locomotives taken from 1950s to 1980s. Finding aids have been created for a portion of the collection.

Lawrence, Kansas

Lawrence Collection

Comprising all aspects of the history of Lawrence, Kansas, this collection contains photographs dating from the 1850s to the present. Cityscapes, buildings, businesses, events and people. Finding aid and subject access available.

Newspaper Archives

Lawrence Journal World Collection

Archive of photographs of the Lawrence Journal World from 1954 to 1995. The collection consists of 155 linear feet of negatives and prints arranged chronologically. Finding aid available for some years.